Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 11., 1 by jackieshar

jackieshar wrote:
Is that purple bee balm?.......it's beautiful, but the fields of it around here I have been referring to as horse mint. It blooms in the wild here at the same time as the ox-eyed daisey. When the daiseys close in the mornings and late afternoons it's undersides are a pinky purple and look great with the "horse mint". I am pleased to have a more suitable name to put with it. I dug some up and brought to the cultivated butterfly garden.....one took root and is doing great so I expect to have a better spread from it next season.

I had no idea that was Monardo.......I have tried growing the red in the dry areas around the ponds many times here with no success....I had given up thinking it was not meant to be. I try to get along with nature here as best I can...



This message was edited Jun 4, 2006 3:48 PM